The Problem of Suffering: Existential and Transpersonal Perspectives

Abstract

The philosophical foundations of existential and transpersonal psychologies are compared and contrasted. This examination focuses in particular on these approaches to the theme of human suffering. Suffering is here seen as being pervasive, and the sources of this pervasiveness are explicated. Then inauthentic and authentic responses to suffering are noted and analyzed, from both existential and transpersonal perspectives.